a rug for re-organising value (of waste & self)

While the home may be a site of love, comfort and tranquility, it is undeniably also a site of waste creation & increasingly so.

Assuming the familiar form of the blanket, this artwork has been woven from the artists’ material waste over a six month period. Close inspection reveals a visual litany of daily waste; a chocolate wrapper; a bread bag; cat food tin, newspaper, magazine and single use plastics.  Revealed also is our personal inextricable connection to that we so often want to eliminate, disguise and hide through consignment to the rubbish bin. By shredding, cutting, twining, plying and weaving waste into a large scale textile, the artist actively reassigns and transforms the ‘no value’ of domestic waste, making it a site of value and creativity; a site of tactile familiarity.

Showing as part of The Ideal Home -
Penrith Regional Gallery & Lewers Bequest

Catalogue available to download here

Photography by Silversalt